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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821536803321

Autore

Kostantaras Dean J.

Titolo

Nationalism and revolution in Europe, 1763-1848 / / Dean Kostantaras [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2020

ISBN

90-485-3621-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

940.253

Soggetti

Nationalism - Europe - History - 18th century

Nationalism - Europe - History - 19th century

Revolutions - Europe - History - 18th century

Revolutions - Europe - History - 19th century

Europe History 18th century

Europe History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Enlightenment era representations of the nation -- The Enlightenment nation as a site of practice -- The French Revolution and Napoleonic inheritance -- The Greek Revolution of 1821 -- Revolutions of 1830 -- Revolutions of 1848 -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses enduring historiographical problems concerning the appearance of the first national movements in Europe and their role in the crises associated with the Age of Revolution. Considerable detail is supplied to the picture of Enlightenment era intellectual and cultural pursuits in which the nation was featured as both an object of theoretical interest and site of practice. In doing so, the work provides a major corrective to depictions of the period characteristic of earlier ventures - including those by authors as notable as Hobsbawm, Gellner, and Anderson -- while offering an advance in narrative coherence by portraying how developments in the sphere of ideas influenced the terms of political debate in France and elsewhere in the years preceding the upheavals of 1789-1815. Subsequent chapters explore the composite nature of the revolutions which followed and the challenges of determining the relative capacity of the three chief



sources of contemporary unrest -- constitutional, national, and social -- to inspire extra-legal challenges to the Restoration status quo.